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Notes Panel

The notes panel contains six buttons. They are Assign, Edit, Priority, Reassign, List notes, and Delete. Once youhave created a patch, This is the panel where you will spend the most of your note setup time, it is recomended to know it well.

Assign

Allows you to assign a plugin to a midi note number. This is the most basic MidiVid setup function and one you will use frequently. When you click on the assign button a new dialog appears asking wich key you want to assign.

You can:
1. Enter a numeric value from 1-to 128
2. Hit a midi key on your midi keyboard
3. Send a note on message from a midi controller (like hitting a midi drum pad)

If you enter a number or hit a key that is already active (has a plug-in assigned to it already) MidiVid will warn you and give you the option of canceling your current choice or replacing the active key with the new one you have just chosen.

Once you have chosen the active key the plug-in manager displays the available plug-ins. Choose the plug-in you want and hit ok. The chosen plug in will display configuration options (if any).

Set the plug-in options and hit ok.

The key has been assigned a plug in and is now an active key. When you press the midi key the plug-in you assigned to it will perform it's function according to the options you set within it.

If, at any stage during the assign process you choose to cancel, the note you chose will be cleared and removed from active status.

Edit

Allows you to edit the parameters (if any) of a plug-in assigned to a specific (active) note. When you click on the edit button, MidiVid asks you wich note you wish to edit.

You can:
1. Enter a numeric value from 1-to 128
2. Hit a midi key on your midi keyboard
3. Send a note on message from a midi controller (like hitting a midi drum pad)

The configuration options (if any) for the plug-in assigned to the note you chose will be brought up. You can now edit the options and hit ok when you are done. The note has been edited and updated. The first thing most plugins will get you to do is choose your source material. This is often an AVI or bitmap, but can also be a capture source, the current image in the frame buffer, or something else depending on the plugins you've installed. See the section on choosing sources for more details.

Note:

As a shortcut, you can assign or edit any note by double-clicking it in the notes list below the preview window.

Priority

The frame buffer can only allow one operation at a time. This means that if you hit 3 keys at the same time, even though it may seem that everything happens at once, the assiged plug-ins actually execute to the buffer in the order in wich they were received.

It is possible to assign a priority value to a plug in (-127/127) for use in polyphonic situations where a certain image layering order is necessary. Lower priority items get written to the buffer first.

Example: If you trigger two plug-ins, one wich is a bitmap display and the other a video effect, you would want the bitmap to have lower priority so it ends up in the frame buffer first. The video effect plug-in could then read the bitmap from the buffer, process it and write it back to the buffer.

Delete

Removes a plug in from a note and removes the note from active status. When you click on delete MidiVid asks you wich note you wish to delete.

You can:
1. Enter a numeric value from 1-to 128
2. Hit a midi key on your midi keyboard
3. Send a note on message from a midi controller (like hitting a midi drum pad)

Once you have chosen the note you wish to delete, click ok and midivid clears the note. If you chose a note that is not active MidiVid will tell you.

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MidiVid GPU Version 1.0 Copyright (c) 2005 Jason Dorie and VUTAG

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